Wednesday, November 8, 2017

CAMDEN NJ - JOSEPH PEREZ, 15, WAS ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL WHEN 2 PIT BULLS THAT HAD JUST ATTACKED ANOTHER WOMAN AND MAN ATTACKED HIM - AN OFFICER SHOT ONE OF THE PITS OFF HIM!!!

(WTXF) - Terrifying moments in Camden after a dog attack. FOX 29 spoke to the family who are pleading for help to find the owner of the dogs.

15-year-old Joseph Perez sat on the couch still in his hospital gown Wednesday night nursing some vicious injuries after police say he was brutally attacked by TWO PIT BULLS.

"I thought I was gonna die," the teenage victim told FOX 29.

The high school sophomore was on his way to school just before 7 a.m. when he heard footsteps behind him and a Pit Bull attacked him.

"I tried jumping into the neighbor's yard. I was trying to close the gate and the other dog jumped up and grabbed my arm," Perez explained.

Perez, who suffered wounds to his arms, legs and face from the attack, started screaming as the dogs refused to release him. That's when police arrived.

"He jumps out. Gets a good aim on the dog and he shoots and kills it," he said.

"A lot of stuff goes through your mind like is he okay? Is he dead? Ya know," Joseph's mother told FOX 29.

Mildred Perez heard her son's screams for help from her upstairs window. She came down in time to see police race her son to the hospital.

"When I heard him screaming and everything. It scared me. Then to find out it was two dogs that attacked him. What are you supposed to do?" she explained.

One dog was shot by police, the other taken away by animal control officers. Two others, a 51-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man were also attacked by the dogs. All three ended up in the hospital. Joseph and his mother don't know who owns the dogs.

"What if that was their child or somebody else they knew. They would want to come forward," Mildred Perez said.

She says she wants to personally thank the police officers who rescued her son from the dogs and raced him to the hospital. Police are still investigating.

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It sucks they don't know who the owners are. Is there such a thing as a "responsible pit bull owner"? I don't think so. These pit bulls were at large, and obviously don't have any tags or microchips. They probably weren't vaccinated either.

Breed Specific Legislation would help those irresponsible nutters become upstanding citizens!

THE CODE OF ALABAMA - 1975

Title: 6 CIVIL PRACTICE

Section 6-5-120

Defined.

A "nuisance" is anything that works hurt, inconvenience or damage to another. The fact that the act done may otherwise be lawful does not keep it from being a nuisance. The inconvenience complained of must not be fanciful or such as would affect only one of a fastidious taste, but it should be such as would affect an ordinary reasonable man.

(Code 1907, §5193; Code 1923, §9271; Code 1940, T. 7, §1081

Section 6-5-121

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Distinction between public and private nuisances; right of action generally.

Nuisances are either public or private. A public nuisance is one which damages all persons who come within the sphere of its operation, though it may vary in its effects on individuals. A private nuisance is one limited in its injurious effects to one or a few individuals. Generally, a public nuisance gives no right of action to any individual, but must be abated by a process instituted in the name of the state. A private nuisance gives a right of action to the person injured.

Use of force in defense of a person.

(a) A person is justified in using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or herself or a third person from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person, and he or she may use a degree of force which he or she reasonably believes to be necessary for the purpose. A person may use deadly physical force, and is legally presumed to be justified in using deadly physical force in self-defense or the defense of another person pursuant to subdivision (4), if the person reasonably believes that another person is:

(1) Using or about to use unlawful deadly physical force.

(2) Using or about to use physical force against an occupant of a dwelling while committing or attempting to commit a burglary of such dwelling.

(3) Committing or about to commit a kidnapping in any degree, assault in the first or second degree, burglary in any degree, robbery in any degree, forcible rape, or forcible sodomy.

(4) In the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or has unlawfully and forcefully entered, a dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle, or federally licensed nuclear power facility, or is in the process of sabotaging or attempting to sabotage a federally licensed nuclear power facility, or is attempting to remove, or has forcefully removed, a person against his or her will from any dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle when the person has a legal right to be there, and provided that the person using the deadly physical force knows or has reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful and forcible act is occurring. The legal presumption that a person using deadly physical force is justified to do so pursuant to this subdivision does not apply if:

a. The person against whom the defensive force is used has the right to be in or is a lawful resident of the dwelling, residence, or vehicle, such as an owner or lessee, and there is not an injunction for protection from domestic violence or a written pretrial supervision order of no contact against that person;

b. The person sought to be removed is a child or grandchild, or is otherwise in the lawful custody or under the lawful guardianship of, the person against whom the defensive force is used;

c. The person who uses defensive force is engaged in an unlawful activity or is using the dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle to further an unlawful activity; or

d. The person against whom the defensive force is used is a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his or her official duties.

(b) A person who is justified under subsection (a) in using physical force, including deadly physical force, and who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and is in any place where he or she has the right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a person is not justified in using physical force if:

(1) With intent to cause physical injury or death to another person, he or she provoked the use of unlawful physical force by such other person.

(2) He or she was the initial aggressor, except that his or her use of physical force upon another person under the circumstances is justifiable if he or she withdraws from the encounter and effectively communicates to the other person his or her intent to do so, but the latter person nevertheless continues or threatens the use of unlawful physical force.

(3) The physical force involved was the product of a combat by agreement not specifically authorized by law.

(d) A person who uses force, including deadly physical force, as justified and permitted in this section is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the force was determined to be unlawful.

(e) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force described in subsection (a), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.